“Animals are my friends... and I don’t eat my friends. » (George Bernard Shaw). In The Life of Pi, Yann Martel shows the change of pi starting as a vegetarian and ending as a carnivore during his time on the boat. Pi's experience on the boat interfered with his vegetarian diet, he learned that the only way to survive was to make major sacrifices. Pi's love of animals and his childhood life led him to become a vegetarian. Pi grew up as a strict vegetarian, his parents and everyone he knew were vegetarian, to be honest the entire area he lived in was vegetarian. If society's norm was vegetarian, Pi would not have been any different from anyone else. Pi had never eaten meat in his life, the mere thought of him eating it made him nauseous. Therefore, only a life or death situation could change Pi from being a vegetarian. God, to think I'm a strict vegetarian. To think that when I was a child, I always shivered when I opened a banana because it sounded like snapping an animal's neck. I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible. (Yann Martel, 249). Pi shows how serious he was about his vegetarian belief by simply believing he had killed a banana and how difficult it would be for him to consider eating meat. Therefore, Pi reacted very solemnly when he killed the flying fish. Tears were streaming down my cheeks, I got excited until I heard a crack and felt no life fighting in my hands. I removed the folds from the cover. The flying fish was dead. He was split and bloody on one side of his head, at the level of the gills (231). Pi mourned the fish as if it were his family. He shows how caring and serious his love for animals is...... middle of paper......the amount of meat he has to eat. As a result, he even tried eating feces to prevent himself from eating meat. I once tried to eat Richard Parker's feces. This happened very early, when my system had not yet learned to live with hunger and my imagination was still searching for solutions (237). This shows his insane desperation to continue his vegetarian habits. Given this, when he is older, Pi will become a vegetarian again. He serves the author spicy vegetarian cuisine. Even after several months of eating meat, he still shows that he is devoted. Now an adult, Piscine is a vegetarian again and will likely remain so for the rest of his life. Change can have positive or negative consequences. People say that time can change a person, but what allows that change to happen is themselves. “Now I can look at you in peace; I'm not eating you anymore. (Franz Kafka)